Volume 100, Issue 23

13 June 2008

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Population of a rubidium molecular state as a function of the delay time between two femtosecond laser pulses. The peak at zero and the coherent oscillations agree with the experiment in which ultracold molecules were formed by photoassociation using 10⁸ trapped atoms.

From the article:

Coherent Transients in the Femtosecond Photoassociation of Ultracold Molecules
W. Salzmann, T. Mullins, J. Eng, M. Albert, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, A. Merli, S. M. Weber, F. Sauer, M. Plewicki, F. Weise, L. Wöste, and A. Lindinger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233003 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales

Giovanni Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235001 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Cost of Redistributing Multipartite Quantum States

Igor Devetak and Jon Yard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230501 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopy on Single Dye Molecules with 15 nm Resolution

Jens Steidtner and Bruno Pettinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236101 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

New Effective Interaction for the Trapped Fermi Gas

Y. Alhassid, G. F. Bertsch, and L. Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230401 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Non-Markovian Dissipative Semiclassical Dynamics

Werner Koch, Frank Großmann, Jürgen T. Stockburger, and Joachim Ankerhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230402 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Schrödinger Equation for a Particle on a Curved Surface in an Electric and Magnetic Field

Giulio Ferrari and Giampaolo Cuoghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230403 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Quantum Work Relations and Response Theory

David Andrieux and Pierre Gaspard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230404 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Cost of Redistributing Multipartite Quantum States

Igor Devetak and Jon Yard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230501 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Quantum Private Queries

Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230502 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Quantum Dissipative Rashba Spin Ratchets

Sergey Smirnov, Dario Bercioux, Milena Grifoni, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230601 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Steady-State Thermodynamics for Heat Conduction: Microscopic Derivation

Teruhisa S. Komatsu, Naoko Nakagawa, Shin-ichi Sasa, and Hal Tasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 230602 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Radiation from Primordial Helical Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Tina Kahniashvili, Grigol Gogoberidze, and Bharat Ratra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 231301 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Speedy Sound and Cosmic Structure

João Magueijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 231302 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Resonant $t \bar{t}$ Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 231801 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Determining the Dark Matter Relic Density in the Minimal Supergravity Stau-Neutralino Coannihilation Region at the Large Hadron Collider

Richard Arnowitt, Bhaskar Dutta, Alfredo Gurrola, Teruki Kamon, Abram Krislock, and David Toback

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 231802 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Measurement of the Decay $B^{-} \to D^{* 0} e^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{e}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 231803 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to $J / ψ$ Polarization at Tevatron and Large-Hadron-Collider Energies

Bin Gong and Jian-Xiong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 232001 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in Gauge Theories: Nucleon Spin Structure and Multipole Radiation Revisited

Xiang-Song Chen, Xiao-Fu Lü, Wei-Min Sun, Fan Wang, and T. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 232002 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production in $\vec{p} + \vec{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 232003 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Source Breakup Dynamics in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ via Three-Dimensional Two-Pion Source Imaging

S. Afanasiev et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 232301 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Fine Structure of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in ${}^{136}{Xe}$

D. Savran, M. Fritzsche, J. Hasper, K. Lindenberg, S. Müller, V. Yu. Ponomarev, K. Sonnabend, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 232501 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Quantum Control of Excitons at Ultracold and High Density in ${Cu}_{2} O$ with Phase Manipulated Pulses

Takuro Ideguchi, Kosuke Yoshioka, Andre Mysyrowicz, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233001 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Nonlinear Pressure Shifts of Alkali-Metal Atoms in Inert Gases

F. Gong, Y.-Y. Jau, and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233002 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Coherent Transients in the Femtosecond Photoassociation of Ultracold Molecules

W. Salzmann, T. Mullins, J. Eng, M. Albert, R. Wester, M. Weidemüller, A. Merli, S. M. Weber, F. Sauer, M. Plewicki, F. Weise, L. Wöste, and A. Lindinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233003 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

High-Resolution Rotational Spectroscopy in a Cold Ion Trap: $H_{2} D^{+}$ and $D_{2} H^{+}$

Oskar Asvany, Oliver Ricken, Holger S. P. Müller, Martina C. Wiedner, Thomas F. Giesen, and Stephan Schlemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233004 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Double-Resonance Spectroscopy of Interacting Rydberg-Atom Systems

A. Reinhard, K. C. Younge, T. Cubel Liebisch, B. Knuffman, P. R. Berman, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233201 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Three-Electron Auger Process from Beam-Foil Excited Multiply Charged Ions

Enrico De Filippo, Gaetano Lanzanò, Hermann Rothard, and Claude Volant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233202 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality in the Macroscopic Regime

A. M. Marino, V. Boyer, and P. D. Lett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233601 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Observation of Nonlinear Optical Interactions of Ultralow Levels of Light in a Tapered Optical Nanofiber Embedded in a Hot Rubidium Vapor

S. M. Spillane, G. S. Pati, K. Salit, M. Hall, P. Kumar, R. G. Beausoleil, and M. S. Shahriar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233602 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Strong Field Multiphoton Inversion of a Three-Level System Using Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses

Stephen D. Clow, Carlos Trallero-Herrero, Thomas Bergeman, and Thomas Weinacht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233603 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Measurement of the Fundamental Thermal Noise Limit in a Cryogenic Sapphire Frequency Standard Using Bimodal Maser Oscillations

Karim Benmessai, Daniel Lloyd Creedon, Michael Edmund Tobar, Pierre-Yves Bourgeois, Yann Kersalé, and Vincent Giordano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233901 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Gradient Induced Motion Control of Drifting Solitary Structures in a Nonlinear Optical Single Feedback Experiment

Carsten Cleff, Björn Gütlich, and Cornelia Denz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 233902 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Robustly Estimating the Flow Direction of Information in Complex Physical Systems

Guido Nolte, Andreas Ziehe, Vadim V. Nikulin, Alois Schlögl, Nicole Krämer, Tom Brismar, and Klaus-Robert Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234101 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Designing Coupling for Synchronization and Amplification of Chaos

Ioan Grosu, E. Padmanaban, Prodyot K. Roy, and Syamal K. Dana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234102 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Quantum Accelerator Modes Near Higher-Order Resonances

Italo Guarneri and Laura Rebuzzini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234103 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Short-Time Dynamics of Partial Wetting

James C. Bird, Shreyas Mandre, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234501 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Dynamics of Long-Wavelength Fluctuations in a Fluid Layer Heated from Above

Christopher J. Takacs, Gennady Nikolaenko, and David S. Cannell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234502 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Intermittency and Universality in Fully Developed Inviscid and Weakly Compressible Turbulent Flows

Roberto Benzi, Luca Biferale, Robert T. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, Donald Q. Lamb, and Federico Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234503 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Observation of Wave Turbulence in Vibrating Plates

Arezki Boudaoud, Olivier Cadot, Benoît Odille, and Cyril Touzé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234504 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Are There Waves in Elastic Wave Turbulence?

Nicolas Mordant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234505 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Is Turbulent Mixing a Self-Convolution Process?

Antoine Venaille and Joel Sommeria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234506 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales

Giovanni Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235001 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Ultracold Plasma Expansion in a Magnetic Field

X. L. Zhang, R. S. Fletcher, S. L. Rolston, P. N. Guzdar, and M. Swisdak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235002 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of Unusual Mass Transport in Solid hcp ${}^{4}{He}$

M. W. Ray and R. B. Hallock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235301 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Dislocation Cross-Slip in Nanocrystalline fcc Metals

E. Bitzek, C. Brandl, P. M. Derlet, and H. Van Swygenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235501 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Origin of Ultralow Friction and Wear in Ultrananocrystalline Diamond

A. R. Konicek, D. S. Grierson, P. U. P. A. Gilbert, W. G. Sawyer, A. V. Sumant, and R. W. Carpick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235502 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Vibrational Properties of Nanograins and Interfaces in Nanocrystalline Materials

S. Stankov, Y. Z. Yue, M. Miglierini, B. Sepiol, I. Sergueev, A. I. Chumakov, L. Hu, P. Svec, and R. Rüffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235503 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Electronegativity Identification of Novel Superhard Materials

Keyan Li, Xingtao Wang, Fangfang Zhang, and Dongfeng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 235504 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopy on Single Dye Molecules with 15 nm Resolution

Jens Steidtner and Bruno Pettinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236101 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Transforming Carbon Nanotubes by Silylation: An Ab Initio Study

Kiseok Chang, Savas Berber, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236102 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Modeling Mixture Transport at the Nanoscale: Departure from Existing Paradigms

Suresh K. Bhatia and David Nicholson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236103 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Atomic Scale Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy Studies of the Surface Potential Variations on the ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ Surface

G. H. Enevoldsen, T. Glatzel, M. C. Christensen, J. V. Lauritsen, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236104 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Hydrogen-Induced Ostwald Ripening at Room Temperature in a Pd Nanocluster Film

M. Di Vece, D. Grandjean, M. J. Van Bael, C. P. Romero, X. Wang, S. Decoster, A. Vantomme, and P. Lievens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236105 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Ubiquitous Mechanisms of Energy Dissipation in Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

S. Alireza Ghasemi, Stefan Goedecker, Alexis Baratoff, Thomas Lenosky, Ernst Meyer, and Hans J. Hug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236106 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magnetic-Field Control of Quantum Critical Points of Valence Transition

Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Tsuruta, Kazumasa Miyake, and Jacques Flouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236401 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Pseudogap-Driven Sign Reversal of the Hall Effect

D. V. Evtushinsky, A. A. Kordyuk, V. B. Zabolotnyy, D. S. Inosov, B. Büchner, H. Berger, L. Patthey, R. Follath, and S. V. Borisenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236402 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Kondo Stripes in an Anderson-Heisenberg Model of Heavy Fermion Systems

Jian-Xin Zhu, I. Martin, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236403 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Hartree-Fock Ground State of the Three-Dimensional Electron Gas

Shiwei Zhang and D. M. Ceperley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236404 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

New Magnetic Field Dependence of Landau Levels in a Graphenelike Structure

Petra Dietl, Frédéric Piéchon, and Gilles Montambaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236405 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Inverted Type-II Semiconductors

Chaoxing Liu, Taylor L. Hughes, Xiao-Liang Qi, Kang Wang, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236601 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Anomalous Hall Effect in a Two Dimensional Electron Gas with Magnetic Impurities

Tamara S. Nunner, Gergely Zaránd, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236602 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Electronic Spin Drift in Graphene Field-Effect Transistors

C. Józsa, M. Popinciuc, N. Tombros, H. T. Jonkman, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236603 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Fully Valley-Polarized Electron Beams in Graphene

J. L. Garcia-Pomar, A. Cortijo, and M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236801 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Spin Echo of a Single Electron Spin in a Quantum Dot

F. H. L. Koppens, K. C. Nowack, and L. M. K. Vandersypen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236802 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Phase Coherence, Inelastic Scattering, and Interaction Corrections in Pumping Through Quantum Dots

Davide Fioretto and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236803 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Dynamics of the Pairing Interaction in the Hubbard and $t − J$ Models of High-Temperature Superconductors

T. A. Maier, D. Poilblanc, and D. J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 237001 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Anomalous Double Peak Structure in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Tunneling Density of States

P. SanGiorgio, S. Reymond, M. R. Beasley, J. H. Kwon, and K. Char

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 237002 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Density Functional Study of ${LaFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ : A Low Carrier Density Superconductor Near Itinerant Magnetism

D. J. Singh and M.-H. Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 237003 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Singlet-Triplet Dispersion Reveals Additional Frustration in the Triangular-Lattice Dimer Compound ${Ba}_{3} {Mn}_{2} O_{8}$

M. B. Stone, M. D. Lumsden, S. Chang, E. C. Samulon, C. D. Batista, and I. R. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 237201 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Zero Sound Mode in Normal Liquid ${}^{3}{He}$ ”

Alexander J. M. Schmets and Wouter Montfrooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 239601 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Albergamo et al. Reply:

F. Albergamo, R. Verbeni, S. Huotari, G. Vankó, and G. Monaco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 239602 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Effect of Stochastic Resonance on Bone Loss in Osteopenic Conditions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 128101 (2008)]

Marco Rusconi, Alexey Zaikin, Norbert Marwan, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 239901 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008